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unimportant / not serious / it doesn't matter / never mind / it looks all right, but
HSK 4
always / at all times / never (if used in negative sentence)
HSK 3
to have spare time / free from work / it's not important / it's nothing / never mind
HSK 1
never
HSK 6
it doesn't matter; it's nothing; never mind / think nothing of it; it's my pleasure; you're welcome
HSK 1
never
HSK 7-9
never (in the past) / never did
HSK 6
a little dirt never killed anybody (proverb) / a couple of germs won't do you any harm
lit. to mend the pen after sheep are lost (idiom) / fig. to act belatedly / better late than never / to lock the stable door after the horse has bolted
HSK 7-9
avaricious and insatiable (idiom); greedy and never satisfied
Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan City, built in 223, burnt down in 1884, rebuilt in 1985 / favored place of poet sages, who in legend arrived riding golden cranes / Tang poem by Cui Hao 崔顥|崔颢, with theme 'the past will never return' / one of three famous pagodas in China along with Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓|岳阳楼 in Yueyang, north Hunan, and Tengwang Tower 滕王閣|滕王阁 in Nanchang, Jiangxi
eternal glory / will never be forgotten
lit. to never burn incense when all's well, but clutch Buddha's feet in a crisis (proverb) / fig. to neglect preparation until the last moment, then act in panic
there has never been; has never had / (before a verb) has never
(literary) to never have a deficiency; to never be lacking
lit. diligent and never slacking (idiom); continuous concentrated effort / assiduous (in study) / to concentrate
never
HSK 7-9
one who is not prepared to risk his child will never catch the wolf (proverb) / (fig.) one who is unwilling to take risks will not achieve great things
wealth never survives three generations (idiom)
Never forget national humiliation, refers to Mukden railway incident of 18th September 1931 九一八事變|九一八事变 and subsequent Japanese annexation of Manchuria
unprecedented / for the first time / never before / first ever
a kite that is lost after its string breaks (metaphor for sb one never hears from anymore)
(idiom) always at loggerheads; never able to agree with sb; unable to get on with sb
Time that has passed will never come back. (idiom)
to enjoy sth and never tire of it (idiom) / (idiom) to enjoy sth and never tire of it
unfailing / never-ending
there has never been and never will be another person like this (idiom) / never done before and unlikely to be matched in the future / peerless
meandering and circuitous (idiom); to go around in circles and never get anywhere
know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法)
ground beetle / (coll.) professional or entrepreneur who, unlike a 海歸|海归, has never studied overseas / (dialect) country bumpkin
never before in the whole of history (idiom) / unprecedented
unimportant / not serious / it doesn't matter / never mind
lit. a rabbit never eats the grass beside its own burrow (saying) / fig. even a scoundrel does not do harm in his immediate neighborhood
he who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night; you can rest with a clear conscience
have never / has never
it's not important / it's nothing / never mind / to have nothing to do / to be free / to be all right (out of danger or trouble)
to act shamelessly / to refuse to acknowledge that one has lost the game, or made a promise etc / to act dumb / to act as if sth never happened
HSK 7-9
never put off until tomorrow what you can do today (idiom)
(idiom) to live forever and never grow old
(idiom) to have never met sb before; entirely unacquainted
avaricious and insatiable (idiom); greedy and never satisfied
(in such circumstances) there will be no peace / one can never breathe easy
lit. the trees long for peace but the wind will never cease (idiom) / fig. the world changes, whether you want it or not
(idiom) to live forever and never grow old
high merit that one can never repay (idiom); invaluable achievements
coercion will never convince (idiom)
never to be forgotten
soul brothers / friends in spirit who have never met / to commune with
misfortune does not come singly (idiom) / it never rains but it pours
to fall gravely ill, never to recover (idiom)
unprecedented / never seen since ancient times
never / will never
HSK 7-9
(idiom) without end; never-ending
meandering and circuitous (idiom); complicated developments that never get anywhere / going around in circles
(martial arts) wind-and-fire wheel, weapon used in hand-to-hand fighting / (Daoism) a magical pair of wheels on which one can stand to ride at great speed, used by Nezha 哪吒 / (fig.) never-ending treadmill
is not / has never been / never occurring / unprecedented
avaricious and insatiable (idiom); greedy and never satisfied
never been in a romantic relationship
unprecedented and never to be duplicated / the first and the last / unmatched / unique
(lit.) so exhausted (by difficulties in a relationship) that one feels one could never fall in love again (Internet slang) / disenchanted with sth
avaricious and insatiable (idiom); greedy and never satisfied
never to touch a drop of alcohol
one who tries never to offend anybody
there can never be too much deception in war / in war nothing is too deceitful / all's fair in war
to change at once on seeing sth different (idiom); loving fads and novelty / never satisfied with what one has
long time off / time that will never come
trouble is never far away (idiom)
a centipede dies but never falls down / old institutions die hard
to have no offspring / never to be seen again; unique
to moisten one's lips / to sip (wine, tea etc) / esp. used with negatives: never touch a drop of the stuff
unfailing / never weakening / enduring / unstoppable
nothing sadder than a withered heart (idiom attributed to Confucius by Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子) / no greater sorrow than a heart that never rejoices / the worst sorrow is not as bad as an uncaring heart / nothing is more wretched than apathy
(idiom) (when followed by ) at no time; never (Note: 無時無刻不|无时无刻不 therefore means "at no time not ...", i.e. "at all times".) / (when not followed by ) at all times; always
fighting everywhere over a thousand miles (idiom); constant fighting across the country / never-ending struggle
never put off until tomorrow what you can do today (idiom)
(idiom) blessings never come in pairs
(of sound) to never stop / to fall incessantly on the ear / to linger on
to stick to sth stubbornly / never let go
(reduplicated) whether... or... / never mind / fine (indicating acceptance or resignation)
never move your four limbs, can't distinguish the five crops (idiom); living as a parasite
(slang) never been in a romantic relationship
One is never too old to learn. (idiom)
(idiom) to have never met / to be complete strangers
"youth freezing", Chinese girls beginning anti-ageing treatments as young as two years old in the hope they will never look old
lit. a door hinge never becomes worm-eaten / constant activity prevents decay (idiom)
lit. one's youth will never return / to make the most of one's opportunities (idiom)
best not to mention it / drop it / never mind / let's not talk about it
unprecedented / never seen before
Drinking the water of a well, one should never forget who dug it. (idiom)
He who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night. / Rest with a clear conscience.
lit. never taking a short-cut (idiom); fig. upright and honest
a man who is never content is like a snake trying to swallow an elephant (idiom)
Heaven never bars one's way (idiom); don't despair and you will find a way through. / Never give up hope. / Never say die.
to expect (often in negative combination, I never expected...) / to look forward to
never before in the whole of history (idiom) / unprecedented / also written 曠古未有|旷古未有
unable to accomplish anything but liable to spoil everything (idiom) / unable to do anything right / never make, but always mar
a "screw that never rusts" – metaphor used in CCP propaganda to praise loyal, selfless contributors, famously applied to model worker Lei Feng 雷鋒|雷锋


Tip: Pinyin can be entered with or without tone numbers, e.g. 'nihao' or 'ni3hao3'.
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